Damn they arent cheap!. Cheapest I found was 365.00! If I could find one for a couple bucks more than a stock one I would just upgrade.

 

nope they are not cheap...even factory ones are not...cheapest one I found was like $250

useful upgrade if you have a high powered stereo that dims your lights... not so useful to just overcome a grid heater that only runs a maximum of 3 minutes, or any speed below 20mph. soon as 3 minutes are up or your vehicle reaches/exceeds 20mph, the grid heaters stop cycling.

 

Hopefully soon to come lol Plus doing short trips I herd will kill the batts faster cause they dont have time to recuperate after the grid heater cycles.

 

f you've got a stereo that hits hard and dims your lights, get a capacitor.

Oh, and I don't know which alternator I've got (never bothered to check it) but my grid heaters definitely don't dim my lights or even budge my gauge.

 

They are ok for normal bass but when you get hit after hit all in a row they deem themselves pretty much useless.

 

yep...like my kind of music...capacitor could never keep up.

The double bass drumming in some of the bands I like is ridiculously fast.

couple examples of drummers would be "Tim Yeung" of 'Divine Heresy' and "Hell Hammer" of 'Dimmu Borgir'

one of the reasons I have a 10" sub instead of a 12" sub. 10's keep up with fast paced double bass better than 12's do.